The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-09-01
Generalities.
The cholera in Italy is disappearing.

Generalities.
The cholera in Italy is disappearing.
The death rate in Boston for July was the
| highest on record.
| Professor o. S. Fowler, the phrcnoloyi,t and
lecturer, is dead in his 18th wear
| The Cabinet has decided to call an autumn
session of the English Parliament.
Charles Page. who stole So 900 or S:;o. 900
| from Montreal bank, has been arrested.
| ASA i. Barron. proprietor of the Twin
| Mountain House and other hotels. is dead.
'rhirty-SiX per cent. of gross receipts was
| bid for street railway franchise in Buffalo.
Already there is sail to be plotting against
irInrc terdihtni the new ruler OF Bulgaria.
Under Dictator Rarilla> there is said to he
| IN improved condition of things in t'uatcmala
| fheniN Insurance Company, of brooklyn.
has building in Chicago which cost s, 100 900.
| The American Board makes an appeal for
all for thousands of starving people in Turkey.
| 1t is said that twelve cents per wor, will
| soon he made the uniform cable rate by all the
| lines
| Great Britain is making inquiries about the
| n
| kan waters.
1t will probably take fully 1000, 900 to settle
| the claims for damages growing ont of the Illi-
nos railroad disaster.
Assignee Cromwcll's statement of the affairs
of Ives n Go. gives the liabilities as $16l.9, o3,
and assets as $93, 7SG, 800.
The dispute of thirty years standing between
| Costa Rica and Nicaragua over the proposed
ts.ln hslS. .,f last Ipt,n fI,.l
Under existing circumstances, it is said the
| army cannot legally be used to suppress the
outbreak of the Ute Indians.
Edison has invented Il method hy which tin.
heat Of cooking stove will produce >liiicicn;
| electricity to illuminate Il house.
The House committee on railroads Of the
New Hampshire legislature has voted s to to
report the Boston and Maine bill.
The color line has been again drawn by the
rcfu>, to admit the negro into the association
of the Ancient Order of Forr>ter>.
The Nicaragua Canal scheme is being viy"r-
on>ly revived as the result of the settlement Of
the national dispute over the matter.
The heaviest man in New Hampshire is
dead. His name was Frank Brown; he wa, Il
farmer near Dover and weighed 423 lbs.
Colonel Thomas T.. Rose is spending" the
summer ut Cape May. lie was the author of
the famous escape from Libby Prison in 1864.
Mr.. Avian Clark, the founder of the famous
telescope works in Cambridge, died ut his home
in that city Aug. 10Th, at the age of S3 Years.
George Phillips has sued L.. ID. Hanson Of
Great Falls, n. H.. for S50,OOO injuries to the
formers child by being ;-l,n over by IIan>on's
bicycle.
Captain Pratt. of the Dominion fishery
steamer Intrepid, has seized three more Amer-
can s,hooncrs for alleged violation Of the Gus
toms laws.
Austin Corhn of New York and others have
madea formal offer to the State of New lIamp-
shire to buy its interest in the Concord Rail
road for &IO0,O00.
Queen Victoria has sent Il brief and friendly
acknowledgment of President ClcycIand'S
note Of congraiulation on the occasion of her
Jubilee celebration.
There have been several sharp conflicts be-
tween the Ute tribe of Indians and the civil
authorities, with quite serious losses. More
trouble seems inevitable
The roroncr'S jury in the ease of the Chats
worth disaster has agreed on IL verdict which
holds Timothy Coughlin. foreman of section !,
t"appear before the grand jury, and negatively
cNoneratc> the company.
7
is to the effect that Coiorow's son has been
killed i'll Il fight, aud that scrou, trouble is
NOW feared more than ever.
thai Secretary FarchiIl lost the Treasury 81
42O by purchasing the $2iO,OOO of I r.. per
cents at 10 per cent. premium.
1t is said that John Bean. her,lic driver,
and his brother Edward, stable hand at the
West End, Boston, arc heirs to an enormous
fortune. left by an uncle in Texas.
A special despatch from San Francisco ini-
Gates that affairs in the Hawaiian Island are
still unsettled and large shipments Of arms and
ammunition are on their way there.
The new merchandise postal system with
Mexico is rendered partially imperative by
the fact that there is no international money
order service between the two countries.
A young man who married IN old woman
for her money at Ocala, Fla, is now in Jail
charged with forgery, by which he expected to
get possession Of all her real estate at once.
Ex-Minister to Madrid Foster comedies
with the conclusion of most other observers
that Indiana will 20 Republican next year
WhOnlSOcVcr the party nOminateS for PrcSi-
dent.
has met his fate in Africa. The story comes
from Zanzibar that his escort deserted him,
and that he was ma>sicrcd by the natives. The
rumor lacks confirmation.
BY the failure of every brake to work when
emergency required, an express train on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was wrecked in
the city of Washington, causing the death of
the eng inecr and injuries to over twenty per-
sons.
Charles X. PrioIcau. who was a member of
the firm of Frazer, Trenholm u Co. during
the American civil war, has died in London.
This firm built blockade runners for the Com
fcdcratcs, and Proeau was specially active in
the matter.
A receiver has been appointed for the Hay
ward Rubber Company of Norwich and Col
chester, Conn. The news surprises the trade.
The assets are supposed to be about $50, 900;
liabilities $4OO,OOO. The company belonged to
the combinations
The number Of men in this country who
could lose from $G,OOO,OOO to $S.OO0,OOO and
still have a surplus is small. Yet those huge
figures are given on good authority rs repre-
scntimg the losses of Mcssrs Flood and Mackav
in the California wheat deal.
Democratic Rascality.
Chicago. Aug. %. A special from Indiana
polls to the Daily News says: More crooked
transactions in the management of the State
finances by Democratic officers during the last
fOur wears were discovered Yesterday IT has